Starbucks Milano News


Sad news for Starbucks fans!  Another year will pass before the lines grow outside of the new Starbucks in Milano.  The latest information is that it will open in 2018.  If my calculations are correct, this will be a total of two years of renovating a building and furnishing it with the usual Starbucks furniture.  Devotees must be getting very uptight about the delay.  Collectors of those countrified coffee cups have dusted their shelf in anticipation.  Do you know that those cups grow in value and are traded on Ebay?  This whole trading thing began with baseball cards decades ago.  A minor exageration.

When we were in Spain we noticed that they used toilets which are the same in America.   Nothing like making things look “corporate style”.  How can it take so long to refurbish an old building?  I think it was previously the post office in Milano.  Whoever owns the franchise to that Starbucks must be beating his/her head on the wall in frustration.  Wheelbarrows of euros, gone.   Things take a lot longer in Italy.  I just purchased a new car in Padova, and it took longer than a week to drive it off the premises.  In America it would have been an hour and a half.   

I guess they bring the toilets over on a boat?  Maybe the boat has been blocked by the EU?   Maybe the Russians?  Someone has to take the blame.   

This has been a short blog.  News has been minimal.  Ciao!

If you would like to read more news on this grand opening, here are two links you can check out.  Just copy and paste.



https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/28/517783805/starbucks-to-open-in-italy-home-of-espresso-in-2018-italian-cafes-say-bring-it

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